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Beat of the Week05/15/09
I failed to post a new beat so far this week. It's understandable, given the relative lack of interest, but here goes:
(MP3) Dog Traders: "Swindled"
I haven't had the energy to do much of anything lately. Then again, if you could sell malaise, we'd all be rich.
I AM AWESOME05/10/09
Do you want to be a part of something awesome?
All you have to do is Twitter "I am awesome. #awesome" (The link right there will type it into Twitter along with a little bit of Twitter-code so you can watch it spread.)
There will be four Superpoop comics this week. Here's a sneak preview of tomorrow's:
superpoop.com
Elbow: Your Guide / Beat Of The Week05/05/09
Here's a drawing I made a while ago. A writer friend of mine showed me some drawings his son made, and I redrew them. The originals are better, but I can't find them.
Beat Of The Week: Cough Doctrine. You may recognize part of this Beat Of The Week as being the background/intro music from "Politics With Charles." In 2006-7 I made something like 400 beats/quasi-songs. These "Beats of the Week" are vignettes pulled from this stash of more or less incomplete musical ideas. They don't merit an official release (Music From Roller Chester only sold 70 copies, and it has several full-length songs with vocals in addition to the instrumental pieces) but if I can't put them here, then where can I put them.
(MP3) Dog Traders: Cough Doctrine
Cheap Toilet Tank Lids04/30/09
My friends, I write to you today to inform you of something you didn't know existed: Cheap Toilet Tank Lids.
That's a toilet tank lid, up there, in that jpeg. I never understood why my old landlords would never replace our broken toilet tank lids until today. New ones are $150+ and this site sells them for fifty bucks.
The bizarre twist to this cheap toilet tank lid story? It's run by a guy I know from Cincinnati, who had a ska band. Believe it or not, in the late 90s, there was a mildly-thriving ska scene in Cincinnati and I'd go see all manner of bands play, at coffeeshops and other small venues. It seems unbelievable now, but they'd get a nine-piece band crammed onto the stage, and the majority of the bands that would play would actually be good. I realize that the experience might be colored somewhat by the iridescent joy of moving out of the suburbs and into Cincinnati's downtrodden urban core, but since the ska scene dissolved, I haven't seen a horn section play live, ten feet from my face, with military precision.
My favorite band name of all time also came from this unlikely pool of musical acts: Lee Harvey Skaswald. What a truly awesome band name. Or should I say... skawesome.
Week O'Superpoop04/27/09
There are four Superpoop comics this week (Monday thru Thursday.) Check them out, why don't you.
www.superpoop.com
Hate to cut this blog entry so short but I have to go to the store to stock up on essentials in case that swine flu gets real bad. Ha ha! Just kidding, I still have essentials left over from Y2K. HACCCCHHHKKK (eats handful of dry ten-year-old rice) HAAACCCCCCCHHHHHHCCCKKKKK
